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Once more we emerge today on the other side of a great citywide trauma, bloodied but unbowed, weathered some but no worse for the wear. Our nightlife industry still open for biz, our taxi and limo services having proved their mettle through harsh terrain, and all evidence of the damage that befell us shovelled to the curb and now scurried past in blissful ignorance. I'm referring of course to Valentine's Day 2014 yep I'm that guy ba dum dum.
Okay, I gotta make this quick, because my cab sank to the bottom of a puddle at the corner of Houston and Broadway and the meter's still running. HANG ON SERGEI, I'M COMIN' TO GETCHYA!!!!
What have meteorologists named this fresh hell? Blizzard Satan? Nor'easter Mephistopheles? Have they run out of names at this point? Yankees training camp; SAVE US!!!
We got another short-lived lull on the rep film circuit this day. Today's lone series is MoMA's Auteurist History of Film. The slim pickings as follows;
Just when ya think the classic film calendar's pretty much set, and none of the houses on the rep circuit or their respective programmers have any big surprises up their collective sleeves, KA-BOOM! Bruce Goldstein and co. over at the Church of West Houston, otherwise known as Film Forum, drop an A-bomb on the NYC film fanatic! From February 21st to the end of March they've programmed The Complete Hitchcock!